It is not for me to change you. The question…

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

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Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances. - View Quote Details on Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds…
While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing. - View Quote Details on While no politician or political system can ever afford to…
I find the audiences very excited. But then they come and say to me, “Your optimism has brushed off on me. I didn’t know we had an option. I feel so much better.” They say, “Your optimism.” And I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don’t tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I’m talking about. - View Quote Details on I find the audiences very excited. But then they come…
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality. - View Quote Details on The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The…
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation. - View Quote Details on Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy. - View Quote Details on There are over 2 million cars standing in front of…
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. Principles never contradict principles…. The synergetic integral of the totality of principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans — in pure principle — we do not and never will know all the principles. - View Quote Details on There are no solids. There are no things. There are…
Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions. - View Quote Details on Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure…
The new human networks’ emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion into the just completed, thirty-years-in-its-buildings world-embracing, physical communications network. The new reorienting of human networking constitutes the heart-and-mind-pumped flow of life and intellect into the world arteries. - View Quote Details on The new human networks’ emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion…
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, and as-yet unsolved problems. - View Quote Details on It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local…